Charles Merton Merrill (December 11, 1907 – March 29, 1996) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Charles Merton Merrill
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1907 in Honolulu, HI
Died 1996 in San Francisco, CA
FJC ID: 1625
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 26/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 198/year
Nevada Supreme Court · 1951–1959Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1959–1996
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Supreme Court of NevadaJustice · 1951–1959
- ↳chief justice · 1955–1956, 1959
- Private practice, Reno, Nevada1931–1950
Appointments
1959–1996 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Hope International Universityba
- Harvard Universityjd
LL.B. · 1931- University of California, BerkeleyA.B. · 1928